Sweet Pickles
- 3 pounds pickling cucumbers
- 4 cups water
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1/2 cup vinegar
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups vinegar
- 1 cup water
- 8 each allspice balls
- 6 each cloves
- 1 stick cinnamon
- Wash cucumbers and put in jars whole.
- Cover with cold brine and store until ready to use.
- When ready, drain pickles and cut into pieces.
- Cover with boiling water and 1/4 teaspoon alum, let stand until cool.
- Drain.
- Put pickle spices in a cloth bag and boil in syrup mixture.
- Pour hot syrup on pickles and let stand in open jars for 2 days.
- Drain syrup into a pan and heat with spices and add 2 more cups sugar.
- Bring to a boil.
- Put pickles into clean jars, pour syrup over and seal.
- Pickles are ready to eat when cool.
pickling cucumbers, water, salt, vinegar, sugar, vinegar, water, allspice, cloves, cinnamon
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/sweet-pickles-34794 (may not work)